Publication News November – December 2017

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

Publication News November – December 2017

November – December Publication News:

Happy New Year!

Playing catch-up with publications and kudos to all everyone else.

From Somewhere to Nowhere, the End of the American Dream (Anthology) Autonomedia, 2017.

A big shoutout to the editors: Jim Feast, Ron Kolm, and Shalom Neuman for publishing my short fiction, Behind the Glass.

This is a fabulously beautiful book on 9/11, the evil #45, the changing neighborhoods, and the failing economy. The contributor list is endless, including notable names such as: Jim Feast, Ron Kolm, Shalom Neuman, Francine Witte, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Holly Anderson, Samuel Delany, Elaine Equi, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Larissa Shmailo, Amy Holman, Chavisa Woods, Bud Smith, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Michael Rothenberg, Nancy Mercado, Jennifer Blowdrye, Susan Weiman, Susan H. Maurer, Ronnie Norpel, Barbara Rosenthal, Valery Oisteanu, Davidson Garrett, David Huberman, Su Polo, William Considine, Tsaurah Litzky, Ellen Aug Lytle,
Bob Quatrone, Janet Restino, Gil Fagiani, EK Smith, Steve Cannon, Micah Zevin, Penny Arcade, Phillip Giambri, Eve Packer, Dorothy Friedman, Sharon Olinka, Puma Perl, Kathryn Adisman, Bonny Finberg, Mike Topp, Aimee Herman, Erik La Prade, Amy Barone, Carolyn Wells, Leslie Prosterman, Carol Wierzbicki, Joel Allegretti, Sparrow, Jill Rapaport, David Lawton, Roxanne Hoffman, Hal Sirowitz, Jack Cooper, Lehman Weichselbaum, Hillary Keel, Gabriel Don, John M. Bennett, Bruce Weber, Peter Carlaftes, Mitch Corber, Bob Holman, Howard Pflanzer, Ama Birch, Ptr Kozlowski, Alan Kaufman, George Wallace, Nancy Mercado, Ronna Lebo, Linda Lerner, Robert Roth, Steve Luttrell, Bernard Block, Austin Alexis, Susan Yung, Cindy Hochman, Maria Lisella, Thomas Fucaloro, Craig Kite, Zev Shanken, Peter Cherches, Evie Ivy, Gordon Gilbert, Jane Omerod, Vincent Katz, Richard West, John J. Trause, Tom Savage, George Spencer, Sheila Maldonado, and many more.

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Late Light:25 Years of Poetry and Prose Anthology, Bright Hill Press, 2017.

Thank you Bertha Rogers for publishing my prose piece, Eviction.

Kudos to the Contributors: Betty Aberlin, Joel Allegretti, Dorothy Friedman August, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Bruce Bennett, Robert Bensen, Bhisham Bherwani, Mermer Blakeslee, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Frank Boyer, Maureen Brady, Lee Briccetti, Patricia Brody, Andrea Carter Brown, Ryan J. Browne, Joseph Bruchac, Christopher Bursk, David Cappella, Patricia Carragon, Alan Catlin, Alex Cigale, Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, Joanne M. Clarkson, Suzanne Cleary, Esther Cohen, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Alfred Corn, Nancy Vieira Couto, Kathleen Cromwell, Dale Dapkins, Eva Davidson, Carol V. Davis, Brittney S,Dayeh, Chard deNiord, Lori Desrosiers, Ram Devineni, Sean Thomas Dougherty, George Drew, William Duke, Evelyn Duncan, Graham Duncan, Patricia Eakins, Judith Edelstein, Joseph Elliot, Barbara Elovic, Alvin Eng, Karen Fabiane, Gil Fagiani, Margot Farrington, Allen C. Fischer, Sally Fisher, Charles Fishman, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Richard Foerster, Alice B. Fogel, April Ford, Peter Fortunato, Fox Frazier-Foley, Philip Fried, Carol Frost, Joanna Fuhrman, Eric Gansworth, Christine Gelineau, Paul Genega, Beatrice Georgalidis, Becky Gould Gibson, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Mary Gilliland, Veronica Golos, David Gonzalez, melissa christine goodrum, Roberta Gould, Michael Graves, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.,Geraldine Green, Andrei Guruianu, Naomi Guttman, Janet Hamill, Elaine Handley, Steven Hartman, Roger Hecht, Alba Delia Hernandez, Robert Hershon, Jesse Hilson, Jean Hollander, Amy Holman, Bob Holman, Ginnah Howard, Steven Huff, Colette Inez, M. J. Iuppa, Michael Jennings, Nicholas Johnson, Michael Jurkovic, Janet Kaplan, Meg Kearney, Ruth Moon Kempher, Judith Kerman, Burt Kimmelman, Alan King, Alison Koffler, David J. Krajicek, William Kramer, Thomas Krampf, Mindy Kronenberg, Joan Larkin, Steven Lautermilch, Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Linda Lerner, Donald Lev, Toni Mergentime Levi, Richard Levine, Helane Levine-Keating, Maria Lisella, Christopher Locke, Katharyn Howd Machan, Jeanne Mackin, Sheila Maldonado, Djelloul Marbrook, Lynn McGee, Kate McNairy, Joan McNerney, Billy Merrell, Sharon Mesmer, Robert Milby, Judith Mok, Rodger Moody, Daniel T. Moran, Caroline Morrell, Andrew Morris, Philip Mosley, Cynthia Neely, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Constance Norgren, John Paul O’Connor, Sharon Olinka, Steven Ostrowski, Matthew Paris, Lynn Pattison, Ellen Peckham, Alice Pero, Jo Pitkin, Palline Plum, Georgia Popoff, Andrea Potos, Gretchen Primack, Lucyna Prostko, Suzanne Rancourt, Claudia M. Reder, Lisa Rhoades, Sherry Robbins, Bertha Rogers, Jay Rogoff, Liz Rosenberg, Charles Rossiter, Sharon Ruetenik, Helen Ruggieri, Mary Kay Rummel, Thaddeius Rutkowski, Margaret Ryan, Barbara Salvatore, Terrence Savoie, Boria Sax, Myra Shapiro, Steven Sher, Steven Sherrill, Hilary Sideris, Karen Skolfield, Scot Slaby, Jordan Smith, Matthew J. Spireng, Susan Fantl Spivack, Claudia Stanek, Julian Stannard, Shelby Stephenson, Pamela Strother, Julia Suarez, Karen Swenson, Meredith Trede, Emily Vogel, Charlotte Zöe Walker, Barry Wallenstein, John Walsh, Chocolate Waters, Michael Waters, Bruce Weber, Joe Weil, Estha Weiner, Andrew Weinstein, Bhikshuni Weisbrot, Dan Wilcox, Malcolm Willison, Martin Willitts Jr., Teresa Winchester, Dayl Wise, Scott Withiam, Chavisa Woods, Carolyne Wright, Lisa Wujnovich, Don Yorty, Marly Youmans, Margaret Young, Michael T. Youn

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Bear Creak Haiku Poetry Blogspot, December 5, 2017

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/12/purring-poets-pl-wick-cathy-porter.html

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen for taking

gray leaves gray puddles

subway in motion

Kudos to:

pl. wick, Cathy Porter, Olimpio Coelho de Araújo (translator Teresinka Pereira), Diane Webster, Carl Mayfield, Dennis Saleh, t. kilgore splake

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Bear Creak Haiku Poetry Blogspot, December 8, 2017

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/12/kitty-purrs-poets-joanna-m-weston.html

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen for taking:

Roller Coaster Train

Kudos to:

Joanna M. Weston, Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Paula Yup, t. kilgore splake, James B. Peters, Carl Mayfield, Judy Katz-Levine, and, Bijoy Kant Dubey

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Bear Creak Haiku Poetry Blogspot, December 13, 2017

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/12/peggy-dugan-french-rex-sexton-don.html

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen for taking:
rain forgives anger

Kudos to:

Peggy Dugan French, Rex Sexton, Don Wentworth, Steve Ausherman, Carl Mayfield, t. kilgore splake, Angelee Deodhar

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Bear Creak Haiku Poetry Blogspot, December 16, 2017

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/12/t-kilgore-splake-james-b-peters.html

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen for taking:

photographs can’t always see

pastoral silence

Kudos to:

t. kilgore splake, James B. Peters, Teresinka Pereira, Steve Ausherman, Yarrow, Ann Christine Tabaka, Greg Gregory, Nancy Shires, and Juanita Torrence-Thompson

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Mankh’s Haiku du Jour, December 1, 2017
Thank you Mankh for posting:

prayers
cover the earth
trees striped of leaves

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Mankh’s 2018 Haiku Calendar, Allbook Books Press, 2017

http://www.allbook-books.com/html/2018_haiku_calendar.htm

Thank you Mankh for publishing:

Long Island nimbus
above the bridge and traffic
blue October sky

as the kettle boils
snowflakes slide down
the kitchen window

Kudos to the following contributors:

Gary Barton, Cliff Bleidner, Elena Botts, Paula Camacho, Patricia Carragon, Chris Clendenin, Jeanne Clendenin, steve dalachinsky, Jeremy Dennis, Betsey Dickerson, Carmela Dolce, Adam D. Fisher, Lynn M. Fornuff, David Fox, Dr. Phyllis Gildston, PhD, Geraldine Green, Barbara Harris, Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Patrice Hasbrook, Linda Marie Hilton, Julio Holgado, Jim Kacian, Gurleen Kaur, Bill Kenney, Jadina Lilien, Maria Manobianco, Sheila Mardenfeld, Roberta A. McQueen, Cindy Medina, Linda Ranieri Melodia, A. Molotkov, Onan Musoy, Christopher A. Nicola, Yuko Otomo, Pir, Tony Quagliano, Bev Robertson, Narges Rothermel, Will Ryder, Robert Savino, Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher, Barbara Segal, Keith Simmons, Barbara Suter, Patti Tana, Anne Marie Tognella, J R (Judy) Turek, JR Vork, Margarette Wahl, Kay J. Wight.

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Home Planet News Online, Issue 5, 2017

http://homeplanetnews.org/5-TContents.html

Thank you Frank Murphy for putting together another fine online issue and thank you for accepting the following pieces:

Diana from Anderson Avenue (fiction)
Kitty (fiction)

Sleep (fiction)

meltdown (poetry)

Covfefe (poetry)

The Hands (poetry)

Skateboard at 36th Street (photography)

Smoke (photography)

Beach of Dreams (photography)

Sleeping Furball (photography)

Kudos to:

Fiction

Catherine Gigante-Brown 1 Patricia Carragon 2 Patricia Carragon 3 Ron Singer 4 Ron Singer 5 Phillip Giambri 6 Gil Fagiani 7 Steve Slavin 8 Art Lasky 9

Book Review

Donald Lev 1 Austin Alexis 2 LINDA LERNER 3 Lehman Weichselbaum 4 Frank Murphy 5

Editorial

About Us Artwork

Gerry de Burca

Patricia Carragon

Bob Heman

Michael Lee Johnson

Donna Joy Kerness

Corina Teunissen van Manen (C.T.v.M.)

Angela Mark

Eve Packer

Aldo Vigliarolo

Jim Zola:

Featured Poet
Donald Lev 1 Donald Lev 2

Essays
Robert Roth 1 Robert Roth 2 Austin Alexis 3

Matthew Paris:
THE Blog Bog

Hot Mike
The Poetry Performance Review
By Lehman Weichselbaum

Trump In Atlantic City:
A Play by Matthew Paris

New Books
Donald Lev 1 Linda Lerner 2 Paul Pines 3

Brownstone Poets presents Saturday, January 27 at 2:30 p.m. Thaddeus Rutkowski Neil Silberblatt Bruce Weber @ Park Plaza Restaurant

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018

Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005

Brownstone Poets presents

CREDIT: Tony Cenicola

Saturday, January 27 at 2:30 p.m.

Thaddeus Rutkowski
Neil Silberblatt
Bruce Weber

@ Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201

718 – 596 – 5900

Subways:

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street

R to Court Street

4 or to 5 Borough Hall

For more directions:

Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates.

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

FACEBOOK INVITE:

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Bios:

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of a creative memoir, Guess and Check; a collection of flash fictions, Violent Outbursts; and the novels Haywire, Tetched, and Roughhouse. Haywire won the Members’ Choice Award, given by the Asian American Writers Workshop. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, Medgar Evers College and the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.

Neil Silberblatt’s poems have appeared, or will be appearing soon, in numerous journals, including Poetica Magazine, The Otter, The Aurorean, Two Bridges Review, Oddball Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Muddy River Poetry Review, Nixes Mate Review, Naugatuck River Review, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Canopic Jar, First Literary Review-East, and The Good Men Project. His work has been included in the anthology, Confluencia in the Valley: The First Five Years of Converging with Words (Naugatuck Valley Community College, 2013); and in University of Connecticut’s Teacher-Writer magazine. He has published two poetry collections: So Far, So Good (2012), and Present Tense (2013), and has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. Neil is the founder/director of Voices of Poetry – which, since 2012, has presented a series of poetry events, featuring distinguished poets & writers, at various venues throughout CT, NYC and Cape Cod. He is also the host of the Poet’s Corner program on WOMR/WFMR (out of Provincetown, MA), for which he has interviewed acclaimed poets and writers. Neil’s mom & dad both grew up in the County of Kings, and he is delighted to return to that borough for this poetry reading.

Bruce Weber is the author of five published books of poetry, These Poems Are Not Pretty(Miami: Palmetto Press, 1992), How the Poem Died (New York: Linear Arts, 1998), Poetic Justice (New York: Ikon Press, 2004), The First Time I Had Sex with T. S. Eliot (New York: Venom Press, 2004), and The Break-up of My First Marriage (Rogue Scholars Press). Bruce’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, as well as in several anthologies. including Up is Up, But So Is Down: Downtown Writings, 1978-1992 (New York: New York University, 2006), Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers(New Paltz, New York: Codhill Press, 2007), and The Unbearables Big Book of Sex(Autonomedia, 2010). He has performed regularly in the tri-state area, both alone and for many years with his former performance group, Bruce Weber’s No Chance Ensemble, which produced the CD Let’s Dine Like Jack Johnson Tonight(members.aol/com/ncensemble). He is the producer of the 24 years running Alternative New Year’s Day Spoke Word/Performance Extravaganza. By day, Bruce is the former Curator of Paintings & Sculpture at the Museum of the City of New York, and splits his time between his homes in New York City and Saugerties, New York. He has also authored numerous publications on American art.

PEN America 2018 NEW MEMBERS NEW BOOKS

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

PEN America 2018 NEW MEMBERS NEW BOOKS

YOU HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF PEN AMERICA IN ORDER TO COME. ALL MEMBERS MUST REGISTER WITH PEN AMERICA SINCE SPACE IS LIMITED!

FRIDAY

January 19

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

2018 NEW MEMBERS NEW BOOKS

Sean Kelly Gallery

https://pen.org/event/2018-new-members-new-books/

2018 NEW MEMBERS NEW BOOKS

Friday, January 19, 2018 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Sean Kelly Gallery475 10th Ave, New York, NY 10018http://www.skny.com/

Come and Enjoy:

Patricia Carragon’s “Innocence” (Finishing Line Press)

and

“The Cupcake Chronicles” (Poets Wear Prada)

Will Be Part of the Celebration

Don’t miss PEN America’s 2018 New Members New Books party!

All PEN America Members are invited to gather on Friday January 19, from 6:00 – 8:00PM at the Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 Tenth Ave, NYC for this annual celebration of our newest members and the work of PEN America Members published in 2017. Hosted by John Avlon, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Saeed Jones, Alexandra Kleeman, Idra Novey, Larissa Pham, sam sax, and Jenny Zhang, the New Members New Books party will be a rousing celebration of the PEN America literary community.

PLEASE RSVP BY JANUARY 12

PEN America Members with new books out in 2017: Submit here to have your work featured at the party.

Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/160823444647462/

Call 21-334-1660 for more info, especially non-members

SUBWAYS: A, E, C, to Penn Station 34th St., 1, 2, 3 to 34th St

PA’LANTE A LA LUZ (Charge Into The Light)

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

PA’LANTE A LA LUZ (Charge Into The Light)

PA’LANTE A LA LUZ (Charge Into The Light)
The 24th Annual
Alternative New Year’s Day
Spoken Word / Performance
Extravaganza

FREE ADMISSION!

Details:
Jan 1st, 2018
2 PM to Midnight
170+ Performers
Poetry / Performance / Music / Dance
Plus Open Mic – Sign Up Early!

I’m on between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Nuyorican Poets Café
236 East 3rd Street
NYC, 10009
212-780-9386

https://www.nuyorican.org/

One of New York City’s biggest literary events, featuring more than 150 scheduled performers, returns to the historic Nuyorican Poets Cafe on New Year’s Day. The 24th annual Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza takes place on January 1, 2018, from 2 p.m. to midnight. This year’s theme is “Charge into the Light/Pa’lante a la Luz.”

The Alternative, which continues to be free to the public, features poets, prose writers, monologists, musicians, dancers and other performers in a 10-hour showcase that ranges from some of New York’s most seasoned talents to emerging stars. The lineup evolves each year to keep the event fresh and democratic.

The audience is encouraged to donate paperback books to Books Through Bars for people incarcerated in prison, and canned or boxed food or drink for City Harvest, which provides for the hungry in New York.

Among the poets scheduled to read on January 1 are Miguel Algarin, Steve Dalachinsky, Cornelius Eady, Daniela Gioseffi, hattie gossett, Willie Perdomo, Tracie Morris and Anne Waldman. There will also be a special hour that will feature performances by the poets of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, beginning at 7 p.m.

Give the Gift of Poetry and Cupcakes for the Holidays

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon's Blog: Words Give Me the Will to Write

Give the Gift of Poetry and Cupcakes for the Holidays

Books from Patricia Carragon and Brownstone Poets

on Amazon.

Thank you Roxanne Hoffman for nominating “Saturday Night After Midnight, August 5, 2023” from “The Cupcake Chronicles” for the 2018 Pushcart Prize for Fiction!

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About Patricia Carragon:

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Patricia Carragon is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online. She hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets reading series and open mic and is Editor in Chief of its annual anthology. Her poems and stories have appeared in over one hundred publications, most recently Autonomedia, The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry, Bear Creek Haiku, Clockwise Cat, Diaphanous, First Literary Review-East, Panoply, poeticdiversity, Sensations, Sensitive Skin and The Yellow Chair Review, among other literary journals and anthologies. She is the author of three collections of poetry, “Journey to the Center of My Mind” (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005), “Urban Haiku and More”…

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Give the Gift of Poetry and Cupcakes for the Holidays

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

Give the Gift of Poetry and Cupcakes for the Holidays

Books from Patricia Carragon and Brownstone Poets

on Amazon.

Thank you Roxanne Hoffman for nominating “Saturday Night After Midnight, August 5, 2023” from “The Cupcake Chronicles” for the 2018 Pushcart Prize for Fiction!

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“It is a testament to her vivacious spirit that Patricia Carragon would think to personify cupcakes as a device to chronicle quotidian activities and as a mode to assuage the anxieties of her daily jaunts. Tasty diary entries mingle humor and contemplative musings in a way that not only tantalizes the tongue but stimulates all of the sensory receptors, as her imagery erupts from the page to entice one’s very soul.” — Alison Ross, publisher and editor of “Clockwise Cat”

Ms. Carragon has whipped up a batter of metaphor, mysticism. and whimsy, sprinkled with the right words, layered with meaning, baked to perfection and topped with a sweet frosting of fable.

— Peter V. Dugan, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2016- 2018

The Cupcake Chronicles is an imaginative fable that explores what would happen if your afternoon treat were to suddenly come to life.

— Francine Witte, author of Not All Fires Burn The Same

The fine playfulness of this book is worth three times the cover cost. Own it and get such sweetness, calorie free.

— Susan H. Maurer, author of Josephine Butler: A Collection of Poetry

What begins as a normal work day changes for Carragon when she sees “cupcakes — the size of hobbits — parading the halls” of her office. From that point on, humanoid confections take over her life — and — ours in this allegorical tale depicting the underlining madness of our ordinary lives.

— Linda Lerner, author of Yes, the Ducks Were Real”

Carragon writes with humor, deft language, and an energy that sweeps us into buttercream icing. . . Pay close attention to the wisdom her cupcakes impart: “We are here to look delicious and to please the sweet tooth of the human race” ; “Humans are better off as desserts.”

— Maria Lisella, Queens Poet Laureate 2015 – 2018

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INNOCENCE

Mar 3, 2017

by Patricia Carragon

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Distinguished by subtle story-telling and a deft use of words and metaphor, the poems in Patricia Carragon’s new collection, Innocence, speak to the heart and soul. Vivid backdrops include a Parisian café, the circus, a windswept city day, Coney Island, and a bar full of bird-like characters. Color and nature star in many of the poignant poems that draw on elusive love and the setback of time. The poems’ heroine rarely frets, but accepts conflict and missed connections with grace. Readers will delight in Patricia Carragon’s poems brimming with irony, imagination, and ordinary life gone amok.

—Amy Barone, author and poet of Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press)

With a palette full of confessional colors, and the urgency of Lady Macbeth wailing ‘Out, damned spot,’ Patricia Carragon speaks truth to childhood in a voice that is at once shocking and resonant. While the title of her book is Innocence, these lines are anything but benign. There is, however, a vital remnant of a happy fairytale that survives in Carragon’s poems: the M-A-G-I-C she sprinkles into each and every one of them, reminding us to hold fast to those treasures that give us permission to live happily ever after.

—Cindy Hochman, Editor-in-chief, First Literary Review-East

Patricia Carragon writes with acute sensibility, grace, and pith. She juggles scenes from her life and makes visible what the ‘wind has erased’. Made to feel unworthy and outcast as a child, her self-expression was admonished, and she was forced to keep within the lines. This is a beautiful book of poems about the power of imagination and a resilient spirit that has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of innocence to gift us all with her creative magic.

––Karen Neuberg, Author, “Myself Taking Stage” (Finishing Line Press) and “Detailed Still” (Poets Wear Prada)

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BROWNSTONE POETS 2017 ANTHOLOGY Apr 12, 2017
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Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this year’s sixty-four reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible.We are proud to have the Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma as our poet in residence. We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet, Bruce Weber, and pay tribute to our fellow poets Bill Pyles and Frank Simone, who recently passed away.
This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the borough of Kings.

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Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this year’s fifty-two reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible.

We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet, Evie Ivy, and pay tribute to our fellow poets, Cynthia Toronto and Michael Walsh, who passed away this past year.

This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the Borough of Kings.

No reading for December Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

No reading for December

Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets

May the season bring peace of mind, joy, and hope.

Come back on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.

for Thaddeus Rutkowski, Neil Silberblatt, and Bruce Weber

at Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West

Brooklyn, NY 11201

First snow

falling

on the half-finished bridge

Matsuo Bashō

Eternal Snow at the Montauk Club, Sat, December 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

Eternal Snow at the Montauk Club, Sat, December 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Come enjoy a beautiful evening of poetry at the historic Montauk Club in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Saturday, Dec 9, at 6: 00 — 8:00 p.m.

Himalayan Poet, Yuyutsu Sharma is having another Eternal SnowAnthology reading:

Yuyutsu Sharma and David Austell will be reading, as well as readers from the anthology:

Eugene Hyon, Jack Tar, Marion Palm, Carolyn Wells, Patricia Carragon, and more.

FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/319389601912631/

The Montauk Club
25 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: 646-591-9951, 917-293-9334
http://montaukclub.com/

Subways:

2 and 3 to Grand Army Plaza

Q to Seventh Avenue

Check the MTA Weekender for Updates:

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

For info about Eternal Snow:
http://niralapublications.com/in-the-news-eternal-snow-an-anthology-reflecting-nepal-and-the-himalayas-published/

Give the Gift of Poetry and Cupcakes for the Holidays

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

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“It is a testament to her vivacious spirit that Patricia Carragon would think to personify cupcakes as a device to chronicle quotidian activities and as a mode to assuage the anxieties of her daily jaunts. Tasty diary entries mingle humor and contemplative musings in a way that not only tantalizes the tongue but stimulates all of the sensory receptors, as her imagery erupts from the page to entice one’s very soul.” — Alison Ross, publisher and editor of “Clockwise Cat”

Ms. Carragon has whipped up a batter of metaphor, mysticism. and whimsy, sprinkled with the right words, layered with meaning, baked to perfection and topped with a sweet frosting of fable.

— Peter V. Dugan, Nassau County Poet Laureate 2016- 2018

The Cupcake Chronicles is an imaginative fable that explores what would happen if your afternoon treat were to suddenly come to life.

— Francine Witte, author of Not All Fires Burn The Same

The fine playfulness of this book is worth three times the cover cost. Own it and get such sweetness, calorie free.

— Susan H. Maurer, author of Josephine Butler: A Collection of Poetry

What begins as a normal work day changes for Carragon when she sees “cupcakes — the size of hobbits — parading the halls” of her office. From that point on, humanoid confections take over her life — and — ours in this allegorical tale depicting the underlining madness of our ordinary lives.

— Linda Lerner, author of Yes, the Ducks Were Real”

Carragon writes with humor, deft language, and an energy that sweeps us into buttercream icing. . . Pay close attention to the wisdom her cupcakes impart: “We are here to look delicious and to please the sweet tooth of the human race” ; “Humans are better off as desserts.”

— Maria Lisella, Queens Poet Laureate 2015 – 2018

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INNOCENCE

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by Patricia Carragon

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—Cindy Hochman, Editor-in-chief, First Literary Review-East

––Karen Neuberg, Author, “Myself Taking Stage” (Finishing Line Press) and “Detailed Still” (Poets Wear Prada)

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BROWNSTONE POETS 2017 ANTHOLOGY Apr 12, 2017
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Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this year’s sixty-four reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible.
We are proud to have the Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma as our poet in residence. We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet, Bruce Weber, and pay tribute to our fellow poets Bill Pyles and Frank Simone, who recently passed away.

This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the borough of Kings.

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We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet, Evie Ivy, and pay tribute to our fellow poets, Cynthia Toronto and Michael Walsh, who passed away this past year.

This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the Borough of Kings.

October-November Publication News

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Patricia Carragon

October-November Publication News

1-Mankh’s Haiku du Jour, October 20, 2017

Thank you Mankh for publishing one of my favorite haiku:

veins on leaves

my tree’s hands

touch mine

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2-Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, October 24, 2017

Thank you ayaz daryl neilsen. Check out these other poets:

Diane Webster, Cathy Porter, Nancy Shires, Teresinka Pereira, Candy Cooper-Towler, Ann Christine Tabaka, Jean Aldriedge, Carl Mayfield, and Toma Rosen.

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/10/favorite-poets-and-their-poems-diane.html

pastoral silence
inner cacophony
speaks


trees having

an icicle meltdown

mid-winter blues

vapor clouds
rise from my teapot a praia dorme
Winter cold blues a maré, um corbertor
a lua assiste

the beach sleeps
the tide, a blanket the moon watches

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3-The Weekly Avocet #257, November 12, 2017

Thank you Charles Portolano for publishing my nature poetry. Honored to be with Carol Winter, Dave Jilk,Mary Jane Andrews, Wilda Morris, Ned Pendergast, Charles Portolano, Tim Grassley, Neil Creighton, Glenn Hubbard, Mike Witmer, Joel Savishinsky.

Autumn’s Chill

Autumn’s chill
paints leaves
in rich reds and gold –

casts them six feet

above chilled soil.

Sunflowers
become aged people.

Green stalks turn gray,

droop in defeat.

Yellow petals shrivel,

drop like ochre tears.

My sweater,
worn over a Summer top,

feels no compassion.

An intricate weave
of utilitarian fiber
has me shiver
behind buttonholes.

But like flowers and leaves,

I watch days fall apart.

Autumn rubs my shoulders –

a dubious sensation

born from wind,
devoid of love,
will die in Winter’s hands.

Snow will come
to bury the past –
the trees will be at peace.

(Published in MOBIUS, The Poetry Magazine)

winds shake the trees

goose bumps

under my sweater

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3-The Weekly Avocet #258, November 19, 2017

Thank you Charles Portolano for publishing my nature poetry. Honored to be with Floyd D. Anderson, Judith Lynn Sutton, John Swartz, Greg Gregory, Charles Portolano, Gene Rockwell Gant, Jackie Fellague, Michael Escoubas, Jane Lang, Walter Worden, Ray Zimmerman, Deenaz P. Coachbuilder

freezing toes

thinking about

flip-flop retirement

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4- Nomad’s Choir, Fall 2017, Vol. 25 Issue 4

Thank you Joshua Meander for publishing “Gray-White.” Kudos to many fine poets: Bob Barci,

Jack Cooper, Robert Gibbons, Gordon Gilbert, Marvin Goldfarb, Jim Hart, Marilyn Thomas-King, Joshua Meander, Yinka Meander, Ros Rabin, Chris Robin, Sheryl H. Simler, and many more.

Gray-White

Gray-white—the sky looks old,

devoid of sunlit blue.

Like the overcast that covers Brooklyn,

the colors in my neighborhood diminish.

Melting snow,

devoid of youthful white,

hugs the cars and curbs.

The featherlike trees,

devoid of chlorophyll expression,

stand like wrinkled silhouettes,

frozen in timeless sleep.

Sadness is everywhere—

gray-white paints the living room

to match my mood.

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5-Diaphanous Journal of the Literary and Visual Arts, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Fall 2017, November 22

https://diaphanouspress.com/portfolio/deja-vu-patricia-carragon/

Thank you Krysia Jopek and Meg Harris for publishing, “Déjà Vu.” I’m happy to be in the same issue with Jennifer Juneau, Javad Ahmadi, R. Bremner, Tree Riesener, Krysia Jopek, Meg Harris, and more.